Key People
This US President was known for being the youngest person to be president, being a trust buster, and helping to set up laws that protected the environment.
Who was Theodore/Teddy Roosevelt?
This group fought for equal rights for all minority groups in America. Bonus points if you can name each part of their name.
What was the NAACP?
This term was used to describe presidents who broke up Monopolistic trusts.
What is a Trust Buster?
NAWSA was a women's right groups during the early 20th century. What does this name stand for?
This Supreme Court case allowed for segregation based on the legal grounds of "separate but equal."
What was Plessy v Ferguson?
This US President was in power for all of World War I and helped to end Child Labor and regulate the banks.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
Dangerous working conditions, unfair pay, long hours, and the use of children workers were all reasons behind this reform movement.
What was Labor Reform?
This act was made to help limit the power of big corporations.
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This word, although sounds like it has a negative meaning, means "the right to vote."
What is Suffrage?
Organizations that used illegal means like bribes and extortion to control elections.
What were Political Machines?
This important African American figure helped to revolutionize Southern Agriculture by developing hundreds of uses for peanuts and other crops.
Who was George Washington Carver?
This reform movement helped to create laws that protected children from child labor, but also advocated for compulsory laws that would send them to school.
What was Education Reform?
These types of investigative journalists worked to showcase the issues and abuses of corporations and big businesses. Famous examples include Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, and Lincoln Steffens.
Who were the Muckrakers?
This amendment passed in 1920 prohibited states and the federal government from denying the right to vote based on someone's gender.
What was the 19th Amendment?
This political group believed that the government should take complete ownership of corrupt businesses.
Who were Socialists?
This African-American leader fought for legal equality for all African-Americans and helped to found the NAACP.
Who was W.EB. Du Bois?
Mutualists were community based aid groups that served people in labor camps and Spanish-speaking neighborhoods around America. They represented this type of reform movement.
What was Antidiscrimination Movements?
This man was a robber baron, one of the richest people in history, and controlled almost the entire oil industry in America.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
These groups of women were not initially given the right to vote in 1920 but would were granted the right later on in the 20th century.
Who were black woman, indigenous woman, and Asian woman?
In the late 1800s & 1900s, Americans had a lot more free time on their hands to do this like go shopping, attend fairs, listen o jazz music, and much much more.
What was Leisure Time?
This woman was a famous muckraker and journalist who helped to expose the danger of oil trusts in the early 20th century.
Who was Ida Tarbell?
This group that was mostly led by women fought to end the production and use of Alcohol in America. They eventually succeeded with when the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920.
When fighting for workers' rights, this method of protest was used very often.
What were strikes?
This woman helped to advocate for both Women's rights and the rights of workers. She was very famous for organizing labor strikes.
Who was Mother Jones?
This fictious book written by a muckraker described the awful and unsanitary working conditions of the meatpacking industry in America. It eventually helped pass the Clean Food and Drug Act in 1906.
What was The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?